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DesignCon 2025 Highlights and Papers on Demand

The Cadence MSA team had a GREAT DesignCon highlighting how Cadence can help you…

MSATeam
• 2 min read
featured , DesignCon , Advanced IC packaging , PCB design

Designing High-Performance Sensor Packages to Ensure Optimized Performance

In an era where technology and connectivity reign supreme, electronic, and mechanical…

Vinod Khera
• 4 min read
featured , IC Packaging , Allegro X Design Platform , EDA , MCAD-ECAD

Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing IBIS-AMI Optimization in High-Speed Design

The complexity of IBIS-AMI models used in simulating serial links has increased to…

MSATeam
• 1 min read
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System, PCB, & Package Design 
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What's Good About Differential Pair Support in Allegro PCB Editor? More Features…

Some very helpful new features for Differential Pair support are available in in…

• 3 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , Differential Pair Support , Allegro

What's Good About The SPB16.2 PCB SI Release? Full Wave Field Solver!

The SPB16.2 PCB SI release now contains the Electromagnetic Solution 2D Full Wave…

• 6 min read
PCB Layout and routing , SPB 16.2 , field solver , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Thank You!

As the 2008 year comes to a close, I wanted to say Thank You! Thanks to the hard…

• 1 min read
PCB design

What's Good About the SPB16.2 PSpice Models? BSIM4 Support!

The SPB16.2 release now has new MOSFET device Model BSIM4 Support in PSpice PSpice…

• 4 min read
RF , SPB 16.2 , PCB design , BSIM4 , MOSFET

What's Good About SPB16.2 OrCAD Capture? Many Usability Enhancements!

There are enormous usability updates in the SPB16.2 release of OrCAD Capture. From…

• 7 min read
SPB 16.2 , OrCAD , PCB design

What's Good About the SPB16.2 Cross Referencer? Active Links in the Schematic!

That's right - an often requested feature from several customers has now been implemented…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design

What's Good About Advanced Plating Bar Checks - Check out the SPB16.2 Release and…

New functionality has been added to the SPB16.2 Allegro Advanced Package Designer…

• 7 min read
SPB 16.2 , BGA , advanced package designer , advanced plating bar check , PCB design , Allegro

What's Good About HDI Via Structures - Check out the SPB16.2 Release and See!

New functionality has been added to the SPB16.2 Allegro PCB Editor suite of tools…

• 12 min read
SPB 16.2 , LMB , via , PCB design , microvia

What's Good About The SPB16.2 Release? WOW - Download It now!

The SPB16.2 release is now available (actually, it was available on 10/31/08 from…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , Allegro

What's Good About Directive Locking?

Do you wish you could lock specific aspects of a DEHDL design content? Do you need…

• 5 min read
CPM Directive Control , DEHDL , Directive Lockhing , PCB design , SPB16.01

Need some stability in your Package Power?

It is not too late to sign up for the Package Power Integrity webinar that will be…

• less than a min read
PDN , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB16.2 , SSN

What's Good about the new "Class" Scope for Match Groups in Constraint Manager?

In the SPB16.01 release, for the Constraint Manager in DEHDL, the is a new scope…

• 1 min read
Constraint Manager , Class Scope , PCB design

CDNLive! MVP discusses modeling 6 Gbps Serial Links with IBIS-AMI modeling

Congratulations to Donald Telian and his colleagues at Hitachi and IBM on winning…

• less than a min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB Signal and power integrity , IBIS-AMI , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , CDNLive!

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in PCB Librarian?

You may recall a post I made a couple months ago about What's Good About Differential…

• 1 min read
DEHDL , Library and design data management , Design Entry HDL , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL

CDNLive! - 10 Gbit package design paper available to conference attendees

For those of you that attended CDNLive! but may have missed the presentation on multi…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , 3D-IC , TSV , Allegro 16.2 , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SI analysis and modeling

TSV, mainstream or niche?

I'm sure many of you will have read the article in Advanced Packaging click_here…

• 1 min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , IDMs , TSV , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: A brief Re-cap

Wow - what a great time I had attending this year's CDNLive! 2008 event in San Jose…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

CDNLive! Track 8 - The Place to Be!

Lively presentation on IBIS-AMI modeling, multi-gigabit package design, 3D field…

• less than a min read
CDNLive , cadence , SPB , SPB16.2 , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 3 ... Product Roadmaps, More Presentations, and Poker…

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Each day continues to show the value that…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 2 ... Welcome, Keynote Speakers, Presentations

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Wow! What an exciting, power packed, and…

• 1 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design , Michael Catrambone

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 1 ... from the Techtorials!

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose The first day, is always considered the…

• 1 min read
PCB Layout and routing , CDNLive , DEHDL , SPB16.2 , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , CDNLive! , Allegro PCB Editor , ConceptHDL

What's good about memristors? Who is planning on using them?

I recently read an interesting article in the August 18, 2008 Electronic Engineering…

• 1 min read
memristors , PCB design , Electronic Engineering Times

Analog/RF chip designers don't care about the Package?

So I have an observation that I would your thoughts/input on. On several occassions…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Analog chip design , IC Packaging & SiP design , Virtuoso , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , design chain

How stable is your IC Package's PDN?

There are three goals for a power a delivery network (PDN): sufficiency, efficiency…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SSN , DDR3

Techtorials, Demos, Roadmaps ... Poker?

What do these 4 have in common? CDNLive! 2008 San Jose - September 8 - 11, 2008.…

• 2 min read
PCB Layout and routing , CDNLive , DEHDL , OrCAD Capture , PCB Signal and power integrity , Capture CIS , Library and design data management , SPB , High-Density Interconnect , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , AMS simulation , Allegro PCB Editor , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL , SPB16.01 , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI

Breaking down the 'virtual' wall

In the last 3-4 months I have seen, and been involved in, a flurry of discussions…

• 1 min read
IP , cadence , Allegro 16.2 , IC Packaging & SiP design , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

Verifying multi-technology chips-in-a-SiP, fact or fiction?

With everyone talking about System-in-Package (SiP), one challenge that often gets…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

SPB 16.2 release - Constraint Driven HDI PCB Design Flow

Today's SPB 16.2 release is significant for the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD families…

• 3 min read
PCB Layout and routing , NVIDIA , Harris , High-Density Interconnect , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI
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